that's probably because any legal system in most civil countries is made of shades of Grey, and even if you are found bloodsoaken in a alley with a gun on your hand with a body next to you killed by said gun you are STILL innocent until proven guilty... and even then, if you're proven guilty, we still have room to debate "why" you did something and "how" it got to that, before defining a fitting punishment... it's societies rulebook, love it or hate it...
As for Police brutality, it's not as "Epidemic" as people make it seem sometimes. There are bad professionals in any give trade, even is it's law and order. The Power, the authority of being a police officer, does indeed draw out some bad seeds (or turns good ones around) from time to time. The only "normal" thing about out of this is that we can call this a consequence of having the institution. The ebst we can do, is maintenance. To make sure that you don't keep around the bad ones for too long.
Police Brutality is as common as brutality itself, because sometimes people just do really, really stupid things. But when it's behind the shield of a Society-approved institution that is meant to provide order, it's just hurts more to look at it.
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